Innie or Outie

For those times when a smaller meal will do the trick, something like this version of a local convenience store bento might be the answer. Included in the meal was rice, katsubushi, seaweed paste, nori, yakitori, pork luncheon meat (spam), and omelet sprinkled with parsley flakes.

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These are tako crisps (octopus chips) called Tako Senbei (octopus crackers) that hubby brought back from his annual gig in Osaka.

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This version of local bentos is similar to the first bento featured. This one had salmon, deep-fried shrimp, deep-fried chicken, hamburger, spaghetti , broccoli, veggie mix, teriyaki pork, rice with seaweed paste, nori, and cheese croquette.

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This is another choice in the “oba-style” bentos with mackerel, kamaboko, pumpkin, daikon-carrot mix, fried chicken, soy bean-hijiki mix, umeboshi, and rice.

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This is another of the “oba-style” bentos and is similar to #32. This one had fried chicken, a stir-fried karashina-tuna-fu mix, pork luncheon meat (spam), hot dog, chunky potato veggie mix, umeboshi, deep-fried hard-boiled egg, and rice.

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These mini packages of snacks with deep-fried beans, assorted nuts, and raisins are perfect munchies for our road trips.

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This is another version from the same convenience store as #37, except this one had chicken, piman (bell pepper), sanma (river fish), konyaku, goya chanpuru, rice, umeboshi, and tofu.

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This is another of a local convenience store’s versions of bento with creamy chunky potato and sausage, omelette, pork luncheon meat, bean sprout and spam mix, deep-fried pork cutlet, rice, and pickled plum.

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This is a bento box from another local convenience store with seaweed, yakinoodle with ginger, boiled egg, gobo-carrot mix, dumpling, deep-fried fish, potoato croquette, mashed potato salad, ginger, pickled plum, and rice with black sesame seeds.

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Another of the local convenience store bento boxes with shrimp tenpura, mackerel, scrambled egg, kamaboko, veggie tenpura, hamburger, konyaku with seaweed, minced pork in wonton dumpling, pickled plum, and rice with black sesame seeds.

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